Sailfin Gibbiceps Pleco

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JEAE21;1146769; said:
haha, I agree

hey dmopar74; is your tank glass or acrylic?
and I saw those small bags of algae wafers but how long do they last for 15" Plecos? How often and how much do you feed?
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its a glass tank but im getting an acrylic soon, im not worried about scratches.
i usually feed 2 nickel sized wafers every night, its not much but he also eats all the scraps from my other fish. i know hes well fed cause hes a chubby bastard.
 
How big is the glass tank currently?

One wafer is like the size of a nickle right? So 2 wafers a day? I'm guessing a bag will last a month?
What should I feed the young ones? like at 4"? same thing; just smaller?

can they even eat meat scraps too? or is it bad for their health?
 
One advantage of feeding fresh veges to plecos is that you cant really under or over feed them. You drop a chunk in, the pleco grazes overnight, you take out the leftovers in the morning. He's eaten as much as he feels like eating but no risk of leftovers polluting the tank.

The smaller ones can eat fresh veges and pleco tablets just the same (smaller amounts of course).

Some meaty food is fine, probably does them good, they are omnivores. Mine get to chow down on a whole shrimp as a treat, and any leftovers from the other fish get eaten up. I just rescued a 6" goldspot pleco that had developed a taste for guppys and had eaten 1/2 a tank of them :eek:

Just try and keep the majority of their food vege based, they need the roughage ;)

Cheers

Ian
 
wow, does your pleco chase the fish?

vegetable main..got it!
 
More of an ambush hunter I think. Would just sit there and wait for a small guppy to swim past, and just hoover it up :eek:
He's in with my bigger fish now so he cant get up to his old tricks :D

Cheers

Ian
 
I have two sailfins and they love to eat the left over (anything that the aros or the pbass miss) when it hits the floor. They love when i anchor cucumber and usually eat between both of them an entire cucumber in about a day. I find that they are mainly carnivors as their favorite food is shrimp. Neither of them try to clean the glass (have occasionally and def didnt scratch the glass) and they hang out on the driftwood but dont eat it
 
thanks for the info!
 
Do I need to replace driftwood often with plecos that require it? Do they eat alot of in a short period of time?

And the plecos that don't eat it only bite it right? So does that mean it wouldn't get smaller?
 
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